There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...

Venus appears low in the evening sky, guiding us to Saturn. Jupiter makes an attractive sight below the Hyades and Mars remains a fine sight.

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...

In some cases, binoculars are a better bet.

I’d done astronomy tours before ... Tom begins by pointing out the Southern Cross and pointer stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri. He illustrates how to identify the south celestial pole ...

Twelve seconds later, Webber canned a 3-pointer from the right corner, setting off a wild celebration on the North Star bench. Then things really got going. Webber hit a second 3-pointer 34 ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust and gas (aka a nebula) that experience gravitational collapse.

Jan. 29, 2025 — New research has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe's evolutionary history and found hints that it may be less clumpy at certain points than ...